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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

  • 4th Edition
  • June 1, 2029
  • Lawrence J. Fennelly + 2 more
  • English
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Fourth Edition is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, urban planning, and security. Fully updated, this work explains the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental factors to minimize loss and crime and to maximize productivity.This practical guide addresses several environmental settings, including major event facilities, small retail establishments, downtown streets, residential areas, and playgrounds. A one-stop resource with explanations of criminal behavior and the historical aspects of design, it teaches both the novice and the expert in crime prevention how to use the environment to affect human behavior in a positive manner.

Behavioral Epidemiology of Mental Disorders

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2029
  • Katja Beesdo-Baum + 1 more
  • English
This comprehensive reference on behavioral epidemiology discusses epidemiology by DSM5 disorders as well as discussing epidemiology methods. Coverage includes anxiety, OCD, trauma and stress, dissociative disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, somatic symptoms, substance abuse, impulse control disorders, eating and feeding disorders, psychotic disorders, sleep related disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, and personality disorders. Additional coverage encompasses age, gender, SES, gene-environment interactions, cultural components, and resiliency. The work uniquely focuses on behaviors and cognitive-affective functions.

Smart Cities at Play

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2029
  • Michael Saker + 2 more
  • English
Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness explores how experiencing the smart city creates explicit and implicit playful possibilities, revealing the socio-cultural problems of participation that transcend the technological. It shows that the lived experience of these spaces are currently overlooked and of the utmost importance to smart city researchers, practitioners, and policy makers as they engage with digital media, communication, human-computer interaction, and digital geography.Smart Cities at Play shows that play is within the context of smart cities and the embeddedness of technology. It engages with “playful mobilities” such as Uber, “playful inhabitants” such as Airbnb, and “playful identities” such as wearable technologies. At the same time it deals with emerging methodological possibilities and ethical issues that are symptomatic of the digital technologies now endemic of the urban environment.Smart Cities at Play provides a historical account of changing perceptions of cities in the context of human experience. It explores the impact emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable technologies and locative media have on perceptions and approaches to the urban environment, investigating what these technologies reveal about the socio-cultural problems of smart city participation.Smart Cities at Play provide readers with a critical overview of this field, serving as a primer for future studies examining emerging notions of play within the context of smart cities.

Modeling Ecological Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2029
  • Hsiao-Hsuan Wang + 1 more
  • English
Ecological Modeling: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Modeling Ecological Systems, Volume 31, presents the skills needed to appropriately evaluate and use ecological models. Illustrated throughout with practical examples, the book discusses ecological modeling as both an art and a science, balancing the qualitative (artistic) side, with its foundations in common sense and modeling practice, against the quantitative (scientific) aspects of the modeling process. This book draws on the authors’ extensive experience in both teaching and using these techniques to provide readers with a practical, user-friendly guide that supports and encourages the appropriate, effective use of these tools.